Lawangin Kashmiri Shaikh

Lawangin Kashmiri Shaikh (15 February 1969-) was the founder of the Islamic Organization of the United Kingdom (IOUK), an organization that sought to implement sharia law in the United Kingdom.

Biography
Lawangin Kashmiri Shaikh was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England on 15 February 1969 to immigrants from Pakistan. Raised a devout Muslim, Shaikh traveled to Afghanistan in the 1990s and fought in the Afghan Civil War along with the forces of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He claimed that he was working with the Red Crescent on a medical assignment, and he returned home without anyone suspecting that he was a veteran jihadist. Shaikh organized Hizb ut-Tahrir rallies in London and other locations, and he became an influential Islamist leader. In 2008, he founded the Islamic Organization of the United Kingdom (IOUK), an organization that sought to influence the public mind to implement sharia law as the law of the UK. Sharia 4 UK served as the website and propaganda machine of IOUK, which used the website to gather new members to its cause. In 2011 it was declared a terrorist group due to its transactions with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, and in 2012 Shaikh was placed on a no-fly list to the United States. On 25 October 2015 he was arrested in his London flat on terrorism charges, charged with inciting a plot to blow up Old Bailey.